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40741 Why 90s were Great for Progressive Electoral Efforts -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Those suspicious of economic populism are of >little political consequence, as far as left >politics are concerned. I have no doubt that >blacks and latinos would be the first to jump >on board an economic populist movement which >white workers were strongly supporting and even >leading. Only the p-b left and a few middle >class civil rights types will squawk about some >issues being demoted in rank. Because blacks >and latinos are so overwhel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 13:37:56 PST 1998

40742 Nathan's thread -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >>I would venture the supposition that the position you and >>others advance is held by more people on this list than certain >>over-excited, putatively "marxist" ones. I raise this as >>a note of objection to LP's suggestion to Burford that he >>migrate to a list more conducive to his politics. > >Yeah. Like Max said. No migrations wanted here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 10:14:07 PST 1998

40743 Why 90s were Great for Progressive Electoral Efforts -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >To me the bigger problem, which the m-m districts may >tend to reinforce, is the attenuation of a class-based >view to a more limited alliance between minorities >and economically conservative, socially-liberal >suburbanites. > >We have a new release on our web site analyzing >the polling data from the election which makes >a case for a working-class orientation. As you >know, pollsters like Mellman and his cronies >tend to serve up prescript ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 07:45:59 PST 1998

40744 IMF and Progressives -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >That is a debate that split the Progressive Caucus itself, with House >Minority Whip David Bonior arguing for recapitalization with Sanders >leading the charge against. Given the fact that Bonior has been the main >leader throughout the 1990s against NAFTA, GATT and Fast Track >authorization, this reflects less disagreement about how abusive the IMF >has been (since Bonior has stated he has no disagreement with Sanders on >that issue) but how to change ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 07:33:19 PST 1998

40745 Russian death -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russian Death Rate Almost Twice As High As in West MOSCOW, Nov. 13, 1998 -- (Agence France Presse) Russia's mortality rate is almost twice as high as that of Western industrialized countries, Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing the nation's health minister. Russians were anywhere from 50 percent to 100 percent more likely to die prematurely than inhabitants of Western countries, he said. The escalating death rate, combined with a reverse trend in births, h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 07:23:51 PST 1998

40746 IMF and Progressives -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >I don't see >progressives achieving a global consensus on how to clean up the >int'l financial system (Doug failed to give us even a roadmap in his >book focusing instead on the US policy arena) Hey, I had a hard enough time coming up with something for the U.S. As for remaking the world, I just have no damn idea. I thought you were handling that, Patrick! Actually, I think the best way to start a remaking would be for troublemakers to take over the governments o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 07:22:30 PST 1998

40747 NYTBR on Mein Kampf -- rank: 1000

[from a New York Times Book Review treatment of Mein Kampf, quoted in a Slate article <http://www.slate.com/Browser/98-11-14/Browser.asp> on why the Review is so boring]: Hitler is doing much for Germany, his unification of the Germans, his destruction of communism, his training of the young, his creation of a Spartan State animated by patriotism, his curbing of parliamentary government, so unsuited to the German character; his protection of the right of private property are all good; and, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 06:49:13 PST 1998

40748 deflation, again -- rank: 1000

[from TheStreet.com] By Herb Greenberg Senior Columnist Prices of DRAM chips, as well as the stock of memory chip maker Micron (MU:NYSE) and the chip-equipment makers, could get whacked in coming weeks as Korean chip makers come off a self-imposed slowdown by flooding the market with product. The Korea Herald, which is largely overlooked by U.S. investors, reported yesterday that Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Electronics and LG Semicon -- Korea's big three chipmakers -- have resumed full producti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 13 11:30:38 PST 1998

40749 depression -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wants everyone to know that he put his article on the origin of the Great Depression up on the web <http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/subpages/depr/DEPR.html>. For some reason, he thinks it's relevant to today! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 12 16:36:01 PST 1998

40750 Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >I think Gordon outlined a possible answer with his suggestions >that progressives meet the Walt-Martization of America with >campaigns to unionize Wal-Mart employees and to create >alternative retail outlets by encouraging the formation of >co-ops. All of course, easier said than done. But I suspect that >the answer does not lie in attempting a return to the economic >past. No one said anything about a return to the past, least of all me, since I've ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 12 12:58:54 PST 1998

40751 Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >In Europe at least the championing of the interests of small >shopkeepers against the big department stores was traditionally >the provence of the political right. In Germany, the Nazis made >a campaign issue out of the threat that the department stores >posed to small shopkeepers (and they made use of the fact that >some of the department stores were Jewish-owned to play >the anti-Semitic card as well). I'm rushing to finish an LBO, so I don't have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 12 11:51:40 PST 1998

40752 Amazon Flames -- CO2 Emissions UP -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:34:48 -0500 From: Kenneth_Walsh at edf.org Subject: Amazon Flames -- CO2 Emissions UP [The following is being distributed on behalf of colleagues at the Woods Hole Research Center and IPAM - Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da amazonia] Contact Information: Adriana Moreira Woods Hole Research Center +55 61 3409992 (in Brazil) Email adriana at whrc.org Information Bulletin for the Buenos Aires Conference Flames in the Amazon forest: carbon emissions go up. In May of 19 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 15:52:04 PST 1998

40753 Stiglitz at SEA -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley quoted Stiglitz: > He suggested without coming right out and saying so >that debt reschedulings are the answer in that they put >some of the burden on the lenders and the surplus >countries. WALL STREET JOURNAL - November 11, 1998 U.S. May Unveil Asian-Debt Plan Soon; Officials Push for Proposal by Next Week By BOB DAVIS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is hoping to complete a plan to restructure the banking ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 11:14:52 PST 1998

40754 heritage industry -- rank: 1000

Speaking of the recent constructedness of ancient traditions, where is Hobsbawm's essay on the Heritage Industry (it is Hobsbawm, right?)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 10:48:55 PST 1998

40755 Jim O'Connor, part 2 -- rank: 1000

In sum, world economy needs more effective regulation by governments and international bodies (led by the U.S.) while these governments and bodies (and the U.S. itself) have yet to show that they can imagine, implement, and enforce a meaningful crisis management strategy. As noted above, U.S. leadership, while not repudiated by its leading allies, is being challenged on a number of fronts. It will be recalled that no one in power in the U.S. anticipated the crisis in Asia that began in the summe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 09:26:48 PST 1998